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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Honestly, my network and server.

I am self learned so i often come up with my own creative solutions instead of knowing about a common standard. I can’t imagine anyone but me could maintain it.

In a previous iteration of my server i bent over backwards to make sure /home did not contain any user folders and instead only the mount points to numerous drives. Why? Inexplicably even if you do consider autism.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

My first home server did something like this. I didn't understand permissions very well yet (still not 100%, but certainly much more capable now). I think I used /var and maybe /etc to hold my docker compose folders.

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The... fucking what... Let me guess, user dirs go into /var?

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sooooooo you only login as root?

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Also no, and my admin user started with a capital. Which was also a pain to setup.

I am discribing my previous system though, my current system runs proxmox and is considerably more normal.. though only as normal as i understand it to be.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago

What the fuck. That's hilarious. My first thought for this questions was 'sex toys' too, but those are easy to explain. I also have a dildo lamp, but I got that from my sister, so also very easy to explain.

My tech stuff is likely going to be the least explainable, but because it's eBay scrap parts hardware, not because I changed /home to a mounting folder though. That's crazy.

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 10 points 3 days ago

You sound like me.